Looking for innovative ideas......
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As a long time lurker of this forum, I have benefited from the collective wisdom before and am the happy owner of a Panasonic plasma, TX42v10b. I have a panasonic blu-ray player too.
The time has come to upgrade from the Sony DAV 800 that i was using for dvd's but latterly used to provide surround sound.
I am not really looking for home cinema as such. more for a neat decent solution (we are having some work done to our house and can take the opportunity to hide the cables and so without much extra effort). Will probably use an Onkyo/KEF combination for this.
Anyway, back to the topic. At the same time as sorting the sound, it would be a good opportunity to look at what else I can do, to improve my AV options, particularly what I can watch on tv.
I should mention that I dont have or want sky (lots of problems with quality with them!) and cant get virgin.
I think my panasonic can be connected to the internet to watch iplayer and such like - is it worth me hooking it up?
I have a i-mac, so would apple tv be worth it? Or one of these streamers I read about?
I actually like buying blu-rays, so dont think I will actually down load movies, but it would be good to be able to have stuff on demand to watch when free sat or DTV dont have much on.
I have a Digi box with a hard drive in it too.
I am not very up to date with the ever developing world of tech, so would welcome any ideas about something I could try to give me some viewing options (or that would be a nice easy to use gadget to have whilst I have the budget!)
TIA.
The time has come to upgrade from the Sony DAV 800 that i was using for dvd's but latterly used to provide surround sound.
I am not really looking for home cinema as such. more for a neat decent solution (we are having some work done to our house and can take the opportunity to hide the cables and so without much extra effort). Will probably use an Onkyo/KEF combination for this.
Anyway, back to the topic. At the same time as sorting the sound, it would be a good opportunity to look at what else I can do, to improve my AV options, particularly what I can watch on tv.
I should mention that I dont have or want sky (lots of problems with quality with them!) and cant get virgin.
I think my panasonic can be connected to the internet to watch iplayer and such like - is it worth me hooking it up?
I have a i-mac, so would apple tv be worth it? Or one of these streamers I read about?
I actually like buying blu-rays, so dont think I will actually down load movies, but it would be good to be able to have stuff on demand to watch when free sat or DTV dont have much on.
I have a Digi box with a hard drive in it too.
I am not very up to date with the ever developing world of tech, so would welcome any ideas about something I could try to give me some viewing options (or that would be a nice easy to use gadget to have whilst I have the budget!)
TIA.
I`ve got a popcorn hour box, that runs torrentwatchx which downloads my "favourite" tv shows from various us and uk sites automagically via rss feeds.
If you want to rip all your dvds/blurays you can store them on this, and have a nice frontend like
Oversight http://code.google.com/p/oversight/wiki/ScreenShot...
I dare say something similar can be done with a PS3/xbox.
If you want to rip all your dvds/blurays you can store them on this, and have a nice frontend like
Oversight http://code.google.com/p/oversight/wiki/ScreenShot...
I dare say something similar can be done with a PS3/xbox.
996nick said:
In relation to the PCH box - what sort of programmes can you watch on that?
If you mean what video files it wil play, then pretty much everything upto 1080pwith pass through for DTS and DD HD.
The new models also come with the fancy media jukebox front end out of the box,which is nice
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